I never got to miss a day of school because of snow ...the one time that it did snow on a school day my mother made me go anyway because we only lived up the road...

School was cancelled once because the heating broke though - that was exciting!

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Quite right too. :tongue:

When ah were nobbut a lad, ah can remember going to school when t'snow were up to me knees. Mind, I were only in t'infants at the time so me knees weren't that far off t'ground. Still, must have been a good 9 or so inches deep. Eee, them were t'days! :tongue:

On teaching placement at the moment, and a few weeks ago when we had the bad wind (weather wise I mean ), local schools were closed due to tiles on the roof flying off and attacking innocent ( i use that in the loosest sense of the word) children. Exciting though!

Back in the old days when I was an elfin tot skipping my way to school, we regularly got sent home due to snow. Mind you I grew up in the wilds of wildest rural Shropshire where people were reputed to either eat or marry their sisters, and the weather was like no-where else on earth.
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Those "up north" may have seen this on telly, My school had a aspethos (however that's spelt - Mr Sparke?). We had the whole emergancy services out on mass. One muppet decided to throw his shoe around a corridor and manage to knock a whole in a ceiling tile! Blimey the choas, Kids hosed down by the fire service the works!! Still they closed and sealed off that corridor, didn't get a day off tho!

I cannot remember ever having a day off from school because of the weather. There was one time that a lot of people were late, because all the roads were extremely slippery because of ice (most student in my secondary school came to school by bike).

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lots of people in my high schools lived in the middle of nowhere, so whereever it rained fairly hard they got sent home, but I didnt so we had to stay. Of course, noone would really notice if u slipped off tho...

Couple of years ago? Wasn't that when it snowed, melted, then froze to a skating rink the snowed on top again? That WAS a nasty day.

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Yeah I still remember the FIVE HOUR slither-fest that was my drive back home to Leicester from Coventry.

Best thing was the rain and subsequant ice came at about 2 in the afternoon (IIRC) and at 9:30 as I was crawling along the ungritted inside lane of the M69 they were just startgin to grit the other carriageway. So it only took seven hours to respond. Not too bad really

When I was in the Army, we got sent to Kosovo over Xmas and Millenium. I can remember walking about a 1/4 of a mile wrapped in a towel to go have a shower in -32 degrees celsius. The British moved in to a campsite that the Canadians left because of the extreme winter conditions? We had been living in an old lunatic asylum and we'd just got the heating fixed!!!

I was never allowed any time off school (unless the school was actually shut, which only happened once every blue flood cos the boiler broke down) because everyone knew that the snow could be 18feet thick and my step-dad could still manage to drive through it. I've still not met anyone yet who could drive through conditions he could!

It was a pain...the school would be nigh on empty, and there would be me, sat there, the entire teaching staff giving me their undivided attention, me, Billy no-mates.

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Aaaawwwww!!

But yeah, just to echo what John said...why does the entire country grind to a shuddering halt just because we have a heavy frost or less than 1cm of snow?? It beats me. The swedes deal with 6 foot of the stuff every day of the year just about and yet in this country we come to a standstill at the merest hint of the white stuff. It really gets my goat.

Oh MY GOd!! I just listened to thenews report on radio 1 and they are expecting loads of SNOW!!!!! Especilly where i live!!! I could not be any happier!!!!! hahaha! So now coursework that i was supposed to be doing is getting put aside!!! hehe!!!
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